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Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey is a stratified, clustered and systematic sample of households. The universe consists of Urban and rural areas of the four provinces of Pakistan as defined in the 1981 Population Census, excluding the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (KP-NMD), military restricted areas, the districts of Kohistan, Chitral and Malakand, and protected areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Ex-NWFP). Total of 408 Primary sampling units (PSUs) encompassing the 7193/8019 households, 6611/6904 ever married women 1354/1757 ever married husbands (men) were covered in the survey.
Three types of questionnaires were used in the PDHS: the Household, the Woman's and Husband’s questionnaires (for details please see Sample Design Section of Chapter 1, Main Report).
